Municipal Cemetery Inner Gateway

GRIMSBY

TA2607SE SCARTHO ROAD 699-1/39/60 (East side) 09/02/98 Municipal Cemetery inner gateway

GV II

Cemetery gates. 1888 for Grimsby Borough Council. Cast-iron gates, piers and railings. Tripartite gateway: central carriage entrance with double gates, flanked by narrower pedestrian side entrances with single gates and sections of railings approximately 5 metres long to each side. The 3 gateways have ornate Gothic Revival style piers with tall stepped plinth, cross-shaped section above with narrow lancet panels on outer faces and nook shafts in angles, short octagonal section above with blind quatrefoil panels, moulded capital and spire-shaped cap with lucarnes and finial. Gates have a frieze panel at the base with pierced quatrefoils, dog-bars with finials above double mid-rails, full-height Gothic-column-style bars with capitals and trefoiled arches below the top-rail and spiked finials above. The principal verticals are square in section with large ball finials. Railings to each side have plain pointed bars, a single top-rail and column principals with moulded capitals and pointed finials. Forms part of a group with the Municipal Cemetery Lodge and Chapel (qv). (Grimsby Planning Department: Scartho Road Cemetery Leaflets: Grimsby Borough Council: 1994-).

Listing NGR: TA2672207238